An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-17
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

History will judge harshly the people who stood by while the genocide was taking place and refused to call it for what it is and do as South Africa, a country that knows about apartheid and colonialism, has done. South Africa stood up, with an Irish legal representative who did this country proud, and presented an overwhelming case that Israel is guilty of the worst crime humanity can commit, genocide. Germany has, disgracefully, formally intervened on Israel's behalf. Ireland, a former colony which was subjected to apartheid laws such as the penal laws and hundreds of years of oppression, is going to remain silent. We will not now stand with the Palestinian people in their hour of need by simply joining a legal case against what is obviously a massacre and a genocide being committed, when other countries around the world are standing with us.

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